TY  - JOUR
A1  - Burek, Wojciech
T1  - Reservations to the Istanbul Convention and the role of GREVIO: A call for new approach
JF  - Human rights law review
N2  - The question of whether the monitoring bodies have competence concerning reservations is at the centre of the discussion of reservations to human rights treaties that has occupied many international legal scholars over the last few decades. The Istanbul Convention’s treaty monitoring body, GREVIO, is the only human rights treaty monitoring body with a direct competence concerning reservations. However, as practice to date shows, it does not make much use of this power. This is a big disappointment considering all the efforts of other bodies in the past and the doctrinal positions of various scholars. The main aims of this article are threefold to: present GREVIO’s practice to date concerning reservations, provide a brief historical overview of how other human rights treaty bodies have approached their role concerning reservations, and finally, attempt to explain why GREVIO has abandoned a more proactive position on reservations.
KW  - reservations to human rights treaties
KW  - interpretative declarations
KW  - Istanbul Convention
KW  - GREVIO
KW  - human rights treaty monitoring bodies
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngac030
SN  - 1461-7781
SN  - 1744-1021
VL  - 22
IS  - 4
SP  - 1
EP  - 18
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -